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As history’s largest youth generation enters its reproductive years, this unmet need will likely rise.
Hollande’s reference point seems to be the post-war idyll of his youth, a time of rapid growth, demographic recovery, scarce immigration, and scant global competition.
Increased global production and falling technology costs could strike a severe blow to Africa, where economic development is likely to stall without industrialization and the expanding youth bubble shows no sign of deflating.
The official unemployment rate today is 7.9%, but youth unemployment and underemployment are much higher.
Throughout the region, newly mobilized (and thus empowered) Arab youth are trying to move their countries towards reform and liberalization.
Most jarring, youth unemployment stands at 39% – one of the highest rates in the EU and well above the bloc’s average of 20%.
With 26% of people under the age of 30 not in school, employment, or training – the second-highest rate in the EU, behind only Greece – structural youth unemployment will prove difficult to correct.
The EU institutions are blamed for all kinds of problems: globalization, immigration, welfare cuts and Thatcherism, youth unemployment, lack of democracy, and much more.
And unemployment hovers above 10%, with youth unemployment far higher, at roughly 25%.
Achieving strong inclusive national-level growth to revive a declining middle class, kick-start stagnant incomes, and curtail high youth unemployment is now taking precedence.
The election last autumn of the activist Park Won-soon as mayor of Seoul demonstrated the growing strength of the youth vote, which took the ruling Grand National Party completely by surprise.
More importantly, Ahn knows how to talk to people who are frustrated by South Korea’s rigid economy and business environment, particularly South Korean youth.
Economically frustrated youth welcome Ahn with loud cheers wherever he appears, because he expresses their anxiety that the chaebol are stifling new companies that could create much-needed jobs.
The Greek economy has shrunk by around 25% since 2009; unemployment stands at 27%, with youth unemployment at nearly 50%.
They have large, well-educated youth populations that have already adopted new digital and mobile technologies on a wide scale.
Because the public sector can no longer absorb the swelling ranks of university graduates, the MENA region now has one of the world’s highest rates of youth unemployment.
Year Up helps disadvantaged urban youth acquire the skills they will need for higher education and professional careers.
Africa boasts a large and creative labor pool, buttressed by a youth population that is expected to double, to over 830 million, by 2050.
Initiatives aimed at reducing youth unemployment, while numerous, can only be so effective if we don’t know which types of jobs already exist and which are needed.
Only then will it be possible to address unemployment and poverty effectively and unlock the potential of Africa’s youth.
Arab intellectuals, activists, and youth leaders of different political inclinations have taken a keen interest in what some describe as the “Turkish model.”
Closing the Youth Apathy GapNAIROBI – When the United Nations’ member countries adopted the Sustainable Development Goals two years ago, they committed themselves to reduce substantially “the proportion of youth not in employment, education, or training.”
And youth now comprise a large share of those people – 18% of the world’s population, to be precise.
This sense of disempowerment is threatening to turn the developing world’s youth bulge into a youth curse – with serious potential consequences.
Though somewhat dysfunctional, these institutions have helped to empower Kenyan youth, driving the high election turnout last month.
In Kenya, the youth-led Jiactivate– the name, which combines Swahili and English, means “Activate Yourself” – has sought to boost youth participation in politics by highlighting the main issues affecting young people.
To inspire more such initiatives, there must be a deliberate effort to engage with youth in a way that supports real political engagement, not tokenism and empty rhetoric.
To that end, the Organisation of Africa Youth, of which I am coordinator, has not only worked with local youth groups and community networks; it has also taken lessons from a GeoPoll survey of 2,000 urban and rural Kenyan youth.
One lesson than can be drawn from these data is the potential value of social media, which, despite being constrained in many countries during elections, remains a potent tool to facilitate youth political engagement.
Increasing youth involvement in politics will require sustained commitment and hard work.
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